And that’s nothing new, as Pearlstein looks way back to 1963:
The various elements -- the liberal earnestly confused when rational dialogue won't hold sway; the anti-liberal rage at a world self-evidently out of joint; and, most of all, their mutual incomprehension -- sound as fresh as yesterday's news.
At the same time, Pearlstein notes that astroturfing, in the form of fake letters to the editor, started way back in Richard Nixon’s time.
Next, Bob Herbert looks at what government-funded health programs, besides Medicare, actually work. Answer? Non-profit clinics in Vermont that ought to be shoved in the face of Sen. Byron Dorgan before he touts his health insurance coops one more time.
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